Easyplant Shares Their Top 2024 Houseplants—Here’s How to Style Them

Easyplant has released its list of plant trends for the new year, along with aesthetic styling tips to match every plant.

If you’ve been looking at sprucing up your space with a little bit of greenery or just wondering which popular plants you should add to your indoor jungle, here are Easyplant’s top houseplant picks for 2024.

Black ZZ Plant

ZZ plants are a popular pick because they aren’t fussy; they’re great plants for beginners and low-maintenance plant owners alike. Best of all, these plants are naturally elegant with their shiny, full leaves. The black ZZ plant is a gorgeous, deep-colored variation of the traditionally green ZZ. 

Easyplant says that the black ZZ plant is a hallmark of the minimaluxe trend. This is the aesthetic that inspired TikTok’s “Quiet Luxury” trend of the year; it’s intended to make your space look as elegant and luxurious as possible without overwhelming it. You should focus on choosing just a few design elements that work together to make your space feel luscious while still keeping things neutral and minimalist.

The black ZZ plant is the perfect color to go along with the neutral scheme of this aesthetic. The plant itself is compact and minimalist, perfect for displaying on a coffee table, near an entryway, or even as a centerpiece on a table. ZZ plants are also a great pick to upgrade a space’s decor without any plant expertise.

Rattlesnake Calathea

Rattlesnake plants are a beautiful yet slightly temperamental plant. They’re luxurious and striking, with decorated leaf tops and dark red leaf undersides. They also feature ruffled edges on each leaf.

They’re picky plants, so they’re not always suited to beginner plant owners, but Easyplant’s trend report is confident that they’re worth the extra work—and we’re inclined to agree.

Easyplant’s name of the game is texture when it comes to rattlesnake plants. With the decorative spots and dark border on each leaf and distinctive ruffling, it’s easy to see why. When you’re incorporating textural elements into your space, there are several categories to cover.

Fabric elements are often the first thing people think of when considering texture; boucle couches, chunky blankets, hand-tufted rugs, and even updated carpeting can all be good ways to incorporate different textures into a space. 

Artwork is also a key area where texture comes in. This can include artwork that is visually textured—with particular patterns or prints—as well as physically textured, with collage pieces or raised textures.

Rubber Tree

The rubber tree plant is always a popular pick for those looking to add a bold green element to their space. They’re not the easiest plant to grow, but that doesn’t change how popular they remain inside and outside of the plant community.

If you’re nervous about incorporating a rubber plant into your space, these plants’ leaves and stems are so naturally waxy that it can be fairly easy to sneakily use a fake rubber plant in place of a real one.

Easyplant’s decor recommendation is a bright, bold blue. Rubber plants are great because they’re aesthetically flexible; they have their place in quiet, neutral spaces but also work well with vibrant colors.

If you want to look into bright jewel tones for the new year or are hoping for a plant that can keep up with a bold Barbie aesthetic, the rubber plant has you covered. Fun, joyful colors will match well with the striking and playful rubber plant as a centerpiece.

There’s a reason why Easyplants called out the color blue specifically in their report, though. Blue—whether bold or neutral—has been a major color trend of 2023 and is predicted to continue throughout 2024. If you’re looking to incorporate a timeless yet vivid color to spice up your space, blue is a great way to go; it’s not so bright as to be overwhelming but comes in shades that are intended to be a statement.

Rubber plants offset this bold color easily; they’re big and exciting plants, but they aren’t visually overwhelming. This makes them ideal to incorporate alongside statement colors and accent walls.

Money Tree

Easyplant is also recommending the money tree plant for 2024, which is the Year of the Dragon. The plant symbolizes wealth and good fortune.

A money tree is a plant that many Feng Shui experts recommend incorporating into your home, especially in common areas. If you’ve been arranging the flow of your home according to Feng Shui principles, it might be a good idea to add a money tree to your space for good luck in the new year.

To decorate along with the principles of Feng Shui, you’ll want to equally incorporate the five elements (wind, fire, metal, wood, and water). This creates a balanced, versatile aesthetic that is relatively neutral but not minimalist; the end result will be warm, calming, and very inviting.

It also leaves plenty of room for you to incorporate plants, artwork, and natural symmetry into your designs. A money tree is not only recommended generally in Feng Shui but should also generate some extra luck during the Year of the Dragon, according to Easyplants.

Dracaena Janet Craig Compacta

The Dracaena plant is Easyplant’s Plant of the Year for 2024. It’s a fun, striking plant that can grow up to five feet tall. It has thin stems with big leafy tufts on the end of each spike.

There are different kinds of Dracaena plants, but the Janet Craig variation has the quintessential spherical leaf formations that Easyplant loves. The plant is generally easy to care for, making it a good plant for beginners who want a larger statement plant.

The best part about the Dracaena is that Easyplant recommends it for pretty much any aesthetic you can dream of. Whether you want something that will stand as an elegant design element or that can play along with bolder or dreamier aesthetics, this plant’s flexibility makes it perfect for any space.

Easyplants expects the Dracaena Janet Craig Compacta to spike in popularity this year; if you’ve been searching for a plant that fits all of this year’s design trends (and can stand in the spotlight on its own), the Dracaena is your perfect plant match.

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